Breaking/B-Boying/B-Girling/Hip-Hop Dance Styles Info

The Breaking/B-Boying/B-Girling style of dance is the first or original style of Hip-Hop dance. B-Boy means Break-Boy and B-Girl means Break-Girl. This style of dance is also known as Breakdancing. The Breakdancing name came from the mainstream media and is not the real name for this style of dance. It is a freestyle dance but there is a specific way the dance should be done by combining each of the areas mentioned below. Some of the first or original B-Boys are B-Boy Storm, B-Boy Ken Swift, and B-Boy Crazy Legs. Some of the first or original Breaking/B-Boying/B-Girling dance crews are Rock Steady Crew, MZK (Mighty Zulu Kingz), and the New York City Breakers.

Areas of the Breaking/B-Boying/B-Girling style of Hip-Hop dance

Toprocks

Drops

Footwork

Power Moves

Freezes

Individual Character/Creativity/Style

The other main dance styles of Hip-Hop dance are Popping and Locking. Other dance styles that are connected to Hip-Hop dance or got adopted into Hip-Hop dance are Waving, Gliding/Sliding/Floating, Boogaloo, Electric Boogaloo, Tutting/King Tut, Ticking, Animation, Animatronics, Robot/botting, Strobing, and Scarecrow styles of dance. Some of the first or original dancers for these styles of dance are The Electric Boogaloos, Mr. Wiggles, Pop 'N' Taco, Boogaloo Sam, Poppin Pete, and SugaPop. One example of these styles of dance in the mainstream world is Michael Jackson's moonwalk, which is really a reverse floor glide/slide/float, which is the Gliding/Sliding/Floating style of dance. Gliding/Sliding/Floating is sometimes mixed with the Popping, Waving, and Boogaloo styles of dance.

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